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	<title>Liberty Lady</title>
	
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	<description>a B-17 bomber crew, the OSS, and a wartime love story</description>
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		<title>The Beaver’s Spur</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:37:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pat DiGeorge</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Herman F. Allen]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On March 6, 1944, the day of the 8th AF&#8217;s first large-scale daylight raid on Berlin, my Dad (Herman F. Allen, bombardier)&#8217;s B-17, the Liberty Lady, was damaged by flak so much that the crew knew they&#8217;d never make it back to their base in England. By the end of the day they had belly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Matichka Crew</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jun 2013 14:20:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When my son Johnny and I visited the 306th Bombardment Group Museum at Thurleigh in May 2012 we were immediately drawn to the exhibit of a .50 caliber machine gun that had been pulled from a B-17 that ditched in the Baltic Sea just off the coast of Sweden on May 8, 1944. That was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ace Allen</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jun 2013 19:41:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pat DiGeorge</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On August 9, 1950, my Uncle Ace was killed in Korea. We&#8217;ve never known much about what happened. I&#8217;m writing this in hopes that there might be someone &#8220;out there&#8221; who remembers him. Ace was the baby of the family. When he enlisted right after high school in 1943 he became his mother&#8217;s third son [...]]]></description>
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		<title>President Roosevelt’s Favorite Dish</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 00:11:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pat DiGeorge</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[World War II Veterans]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a while since I&#8217;ve written about one of my favorite World War II veterans, Lt. Col. Monroe F. &#8220;Buddy&#8221; Stamps. Buddy also served our country in Korea and on his very last day of duty barely made it out alive. Buddy grew up in Manchester, GA, a stone&#8217;s throw from President Roosevelt&#8217;s Little White [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ulf Gahm</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 20:18:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pat DiGeorge</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In January of 2011 I was excited to receive an email from a gentleman who wrote to me “from the sunny island of Gotland, Sweden.” Gotland!?! That’s where my Dad’s B-17 crash landed in 1944! I had been writing about my Dad’s B-17 missions since the beginning of 2009 &#8230; I&#8217;ve  heard about the Swedish island [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Glenn Miller and the Bedford Corn Exchange</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Apr 2013 23:23:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pat DiGeorge</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://libertyladybook.com/?p=7695</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[“Corn Exchange??”  It’s a British term that describes the buildings where farmers traded their grains. What I read in Wikipedia is that the name “corn” referred to all cereal grains. This type of trade was common up until the 19th century. The Bedford Corn Exchange was constructed in 1874 and was designed to be a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>First Over Germany</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Apr 2013 11:27:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pat DiGeorge</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(1982) First Over Germany: A History of the 306th Bombardment Group by Russell A. Strong is the history of the 306th Bomb Group.]]></description>
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		<title>Memphis Belle</title>
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		<comments>http://libertyladybook.com/2013/03/11/memphis-belle-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Mar 2013 12:01:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pat DiGeorge</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[B-17]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last weekend the B-17 Memphis Belle came to town! This is not the original Memphis Belle, the B-17 piloted by Robert K. Morgan that was celebrated so highly in 1943 for finishing 25 missions. That plane is grounded and being lovingly restored in Dayton, Ohio. Rather, this is the B-17 that was used in the 1990 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Strandvägen 7 ~ Then and Now</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Mar 2013 15:17:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pat DiGeorge</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[American Legation in Stockholm]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have written about Strandvägen 7 several times. This is the complex on the famed &#8220;Beach Road&#8221; in Stockholm where the American Legation was located.  In the back corner of the Legation offices were the top secret desks of OSS Stockholm, the Office of Strategic Services.  Just across the courtyard from 7a, the Legation, was the German [...]]]></description>
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		<title>VKF Ball Bearing Works</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2013 21:42:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pat DiGeorge</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On March 6, 1944, the day of the first large-scale daylight bombing of Berlin, the assigned target for the Liberty Lady B-17 of the 306th BG was the VKF Ball Bearing Works at Erkner, an eastern suburb of Berlin, about seven miles from the city center. VKF stands for (in German)  Vereinigte Kugellagerfabriken AG. It [...]]]></description>
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